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Between the years 1901 and 2000, there were 91 major earthquakes in Taiwan, 48 of them resulting in loss of life. [4] The most recent major earthquake was the 2024 Hualien earthquake, and the most recent major earthquake with a high death toll was the 921 earthquake, which struck on 21 September 1999, and claimed 2,415 lives.
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A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic around midnight after Philippine ...
The magnitude 6.7 quake was located 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Burias at the southern tip of the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered at a depth of 78 kilometers (48 ...
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines, triggering a tsunami warning.. The quake struck off the island of Mindanao late at night, with residents living on the eastern coast urged to ...
On 3 April 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58:11 UTC on 2 April), a M w 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 mi) [5] south of Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. At least 19 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured in the earthquake. It is the strongest earthquake in Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake, [6] with three aftershocks above M w 6.0.
This includes both faulting along the plate interfaces and within the subducting slabs. For the Philippine Trench, examples of those on the plate interface are the 1988 M w 7.3 and the 2023 M7.6 events. The 1975 M w 7.6 earthquake was caused by intra-slab normal faulting, while the 2012 M7.6 was a result of thrust faulting within the descending ...